Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were without hot water and numerous other comforts but they had a base they could call their own . |
| 2 | Will the right hon. Gentleman take on board the idea of giving the Prime Minister a mentor who could sit by his side for these last two days to help him out ? |
| 3 | WIMBLEDON have invited Swedish international striker Kennet Andersson for a trial which could lead to a shock move . |
| 4 | What physical relationship he had with her two brothers and a sister she could n't be sure , but for her , the sexual abuse started at seven . |
| 5 | In a case which could pave the way for other people living near Sellafield to bring similar claims , the couple are suing British Nuclear Fuels , which weekly pumps millions of gallons of low-level nuclearwaste into the Irish Sea from Sellafield . |
| 6 | For example , an airline ticket , allowing occupation of an empty seat , costs an airline nothing — in fact , in such a case there could be a negative cost , as it might be an advantage to the airline to have an experienced crew member on the flight . |
| 7 | She said : ‘ The first time I heard of a case I could not believe it . |
| 8 | You know , have you got a bit which could be put in such a form that it would actually make sense and appeal to this particular viewership , audienceship and so on and so forth . |
| 9 | Is a bit it could though . |
| 10 | Okay but you can learn quite a bit you could check any of the food or the drinks that you 've got in the house you could at those to see how you spell them ca n't you . |
| 11 | The upper floors of the storage shed were also at inconvenient levels and the discovery of wholesale decay in this joisted construction supported a policy of removing these elements and replacing them with a new upper-floor set at a level which could be extended into the roundels to give adequate headroom in the new ground-storey rooms , while ensuring that the four upper-storey bedrooms located in these projections had a sufficiently deep vertical wall surface to accommodate conventional windows . |
| 12 | The population of England and Wales had grown steadily in the centuries up to about 1300 , by which time it had exceeded a level which could easily be sustained by contemporary food production . |
| 13 | The range and depth of learning and the sense of satisfaction and achievement gained by the students were of a level which could not have been reached in the classroom . |
| 14 | ‘ There 's a fire-escape we could use . ’ |
| 15 | If I had a stick I could manage all right , really . ’ |
| 16 | They have a full say in selecting schools for their children , on governing bodies where the allocation of resources is decided , and whether or not a school should opt out of local authority control , a decision which could affect the status and position of history in a school . |
| 17 | This practice , according to the Insurance Service , has led to a 20 per cent jump in windscreen replacement claims to insurance companies since 1 January — a rise which could eventually push up premiums . |
| 18 | However , I should add , it is with regret that we have to take such drastic intervention , a course which could so easily be avoided through co-ordination and commitment by other agencies close at hand . |
| 19 | Then Roland found a sentence which could have been something or nothing . |
| 20 | The FIS and IS in this passage can equally be understood as " narrative report of speech act " ( NRSA ) ( Leech and Short 1981 : 323 – 4 ) which is a mode of speech summary less faithful than FIS and IS to the actual verbal structure of the original ; and the ambiguity is amplified by the suggestion in the third sentence that Rousseau 's text autonomously " yields " information without intervention from a critic — a sentence which could also be considered as a form of NRSA . |
| 21 | The new law will carry a sentence which could average two years in jail , ‘ designed not just to be a deterrent but to instil new respect for the rule of law ’ . |
| 22 | Even before you understand the words of a text you could play it sometimes for the sake of the intonation , as mentioned in ch. 2.1.1. of this book under the heading of LISTENING . |
| 23 | In practice in Europe , the returns seem to have been slight , of a kind which could be met by resident servants ( Smith 1981 ) , and did not include automatic old-age support . |
| 24 | Whether annexation was a long-term aim in Japan is debatable ; what is clear is that Japanese believed that their nation 's security necessitated a hold on power in Korea of a kind which could only be achieved by colonial status . |
| 25 | At this point my story becomes the introductory scene of a fiction which could be continued . |
| 26 | Now , as far as the Catholics are concerned , I have to say I like the people very much but theirs is not a faith I could accept myself . |
| 27 | She reached out across the street and tried to get an idea of the shape of a building she could dimly see . |
| 28 | A third reason is that some bank managers feel threatened by a measure which could prove embarrassing . |
| 29 | and your point in this context , it , as I say the context in which I 've asked you to address me , I suppose you would say , erm given the matters are arguable or whatever the test is under those issues , er , nevertheless if you allow the case that 's been put up , erm , either by way of defence or by way of set up or by way of counter claim to impede the collection of funds , erm , then er you are not then you are erm , erm taking a measure which could could , jeopardize the of the objectives of this treaty , er whereas I image you will say , or you might say , I do n't know , erm , provided this does n't impede the collection of central funds erm , in the meantime , if er the defendants wish to pursue their counterclaim to trial then er , there 's nothing to prevent them from doing so |
| 30 | In this case Mr Kelly made it clear to Dixons that his client needed a PC which could be upgraded to 4Mb of RAM and could take a dongle plugged into Com1 . |